UPDATE: Status of TLM Masses in Charles Town, Front Royal, Harper's Ferry, etc.

In response to my post of yesterday, my WV "source" has given me some updated information. The following is a redacted version so it flows as a single story:

Next Sunday, February 15th, at 12:30 PM there will be a Solemn High Mass at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Front Royal, VA. It will be the last Mass celebrated by Fr. Pollard before being transferred to St. Isidore in Orange, VA. The Mass will be assisted by Fr. Gee from Christendom College. Fr. Pollard will be replaced by Fr. Richard Carr.

Christendom College offers a Latin Novus Ordo Mass on Wednesdays and Fridays at 11:30 AM, and a Mass of Blessed John XXIII -the extraordinary form- on Tuesdays 7:30 AM. Fr. Gee has been recently transferred to Christendom. It was announced yesterday at St. John the Baptist in Front Royal that for the Solemn High Mass, Fr. Gee would be helping. I presume this means that Fr. Gee is interested in the Extraordinary Form.

The TLM at St. James is no longer on a weekly basis. It is going back to being rather sporadic and it has not been announced when the next one will be. This is due to the return of the Canons of the New Jerusalem to California.

Fr. Dom Daniel and his seminarians may be back for Holy Week and Easter.

In short, the TLM at St. James cannot continue due to a dearth of priests who can celebrate the TLM there. As a result of this, I am changing the Mass at St. James the Greater to "occasional" in the Mass menu to the right.